Communications:
Facts and bias
http://www.educationquizzes.com/gcse/english/bias/

Lesson plan on bias
http://www.pdesas.org/module/content/resources/19402/view.ashx

Bias in the media:
http://mediasavvykids.wikispaces.com/

Journalism and sources:
http://journalism.about.com/od/reporting/a/Dealing-With-Sources-On-A-Breaking-News-Story.htm

More news websites:
https://theconnectedclassroom.wikispaces.com/News

News websites:
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/

Kids news website:
http://www.dogonews.com/2013/9/18/banished-fake-van-gogh-painting-turns-out-to-be-the-real-deal

http://www.gogonews.com/

Advertising techniques:
http://propaganda.mrdonn.org/lessonplans.html

Interviewing techniques:
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3752516

Parent Information for My Big Campus
http://www.pdsd.org//site/Default.aspx?PageID=4445

Common Core
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/

Center Ideas:
http://www.tips-for-teachers.com/CenterIdeas.htm

Survey 2011:
Students will use their first name, last name953 (no spaces) for the username and the school name for the password.
**http://www.quia.com/quiz/2143466.html**

Vocab:
http://www.wordcentral.com/home.html

Templates:
http://www.templates4teachers.com/

Spelling:
http://www.spellingcity.com/mpalladino/

Writing:
Graphic Oraganizers
http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html

Rubrics
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

PSSA Practice web resources
http://www.powayusd.com/projects/edtechcentralnew/4-5standards.htm

PSSA Practice
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/pennsylvania_system_of_school_assessment_(pssa)/8757/resource_materials/507610

PSSA Open ended reponses:
http://www.eriesd.org/homelinks/PSSA/Gr4Read06.pdf


Writing prompts and more:
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/daily-writing-prompts/?gclid=CNWDz-qbmZ0CFdFL5QodhDRA1A

More writing prompts:
http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

http://www.thewritesource.com/studentmodels/#exp

http://abcteach.com/directory/basics/writing/writing_prompts/
http://jc-schools.net/write/prompts.html
http://www.k12.wa.us/teacherresourcetool/Writing/Elementary.aspx

Persausive writing:
http://www.kent.k12.wa.us/curriculum/writing/elem_writing/bib/persuasive.htm

Advertising:
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

Digital Language tools:

http://www.grammarmancomic.com/templates.html
Comic Book writing

http://www.coloring.ws/cartoons.htm
Great coloring pages for making your own cartoons

http://www.alphabetcoloring.net/big-outline/
Alphabet coloring

http://larae.net/write/transition.html
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb/trans1.html
http://www.barbbumgardner.com/Graphics/pdf_files/Transition_Words.pdf
Transition words and phrases

Parts of a friendly letter
http://abcteach.com/Writing/FLinfo.htm

Lesson plan punctuation:
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/pen_italianjob/

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/pen_australia/

Hyphenated word list:
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/punctuation/hyphen-b.html


Lesson plans prefixes and suffixes
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/pen_egypt/

Lesson plans nouns
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/pen_china/

Lesson plans for adjectives
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/pen_africa/

Lesson plan for verbs
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/pen_peru/

Lesson plan for pronouns
http://languagearts.pppst.com/index.html


http://hillside.needham.k12.ma.us/cyberventues/literacy/grade_4_literacy/4_literacy.htm
Grammar

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills-4th-langbuilders.htm
http://www.worksheetsplus.com/
Great Langauge arts cite.

http://www.k12tlc.net/content/comics.htm

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/comic/

http://trainking.wikispaces.com/Comics
Comic Book resources

http://sb058.k12.sd.us/multiple%20meanings/multiple_meaning_words.htm
Multiple Meaning Words

http://lexile.com/findabook/
Finding levels for student books

http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/e3topic.cfm?TopicID=119

http://www.puzzles.ca/wordsearch.html
Word Search

http://sb058.k12.sd.us/multiple%20meanings/multiple_meaning_words.htm
Mutlple meaning words



Standards/teaching resources:
http://pdesas.org/

Multimedia resources
http://medialiteracy.drugfreepa.org/

MLA
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/07/

Mutlimedia resources 2
http://www.ithaca.edu/looksharp/?action=index_generalmedialiteracy

Misinformation/urban legend
http://www.snopes.com/

Media bias
http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/types-of-media-bias/

Resources:
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/teaching-topics/the-spirit-of-the-season/

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/weekly-news-quiz-nov-26-dec-2-2013/?_r=0

http://sat.collegeboard.org/practice/sat-question-of-the-day

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/word-of-the-day/

Technology innovations
http://www.wimp.com/theinternet/

Three modes of communication

http://swcolt2011.wikispaces.com/Three+modes+of+communication

Food tricks
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/foodadtricks.html

Social Skills Video

http://www.pinterest.com/cmcormier/social-skills-videos/
http://www.speakingofspeech.com/Social_Skills_Pragmatics.html

Movie Trailer Templates
http://teachingparadox.edublogs.org/files/2012/08/iMovie-Trailer-Storyboard-2b1qirp.pdf

News Articles

http://newsela.com/

Computer fair 2014
http://www.middleschoolcomputerfair.org/generalinfo.html

Social Stories
http://www.thegraycenter.org/social-stories

PSSA Test for teachers
www.pssatraining.com.

Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily Times

Philadelphia Inquirer
http://nie.philly.com/index.aspx
Click Access the Inquirer Digital Edition
Login:
Email Address
pmorgan@pdsd.org
Password
10109
Daily Times
http://www.delcotimes.com/
Top tab of Tools
Click on E-Paper and choose the newspaper you would like to view.
You will need to set up your preferences on how you want to view the newspaper but both the Inquirer and Daily Times are set up in a similar way to view the articles.

Citations:
http://www.easybib.com/

Social Skills apps:
http://www.autismspeaks.org/autism-apps


www.hamaguchiapps.com
Conversation Builder, Story Builder
by Mobile Education Store
What are they thinking? by Super duper
Publications
Model Me Kids, Videos for modeling Social Skills, by
www.modelmekids.com

Career Day:
http://breitlinks.com/careers/career_activities.htm

Pa Resources for careers
http://www.pacareerzone.org/